Hat-pin-point protector.



G. G. HAY.

HAT PIN POINT PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION IILBD MAR. 20, 1011.

Patented Aug. 22, 1911.

ATTORNEY .DLUMIIA PLANUGRAPII cu., WASHINGTON. u, L.

GEORGE G. HAY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAT-PIN-POINT PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 22, 1911.

Application filed March 20, 1911. Serial No. 615,638.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE G. IIAY, a citizen of the United States of America residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useil ul Improvements in Hat-Pin-Point Protectors, of which the following is a specification, retiercnce being bad. therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to hatpin point protectors, and the objects of my invention are to provide a protector that can be easily and quickly mounted upon the pointed end of a pin to prevent the exposed end of the pin from, jabbing or injuring persons in the vicinity of the same, and to furnish a proteeter with positive and reliable means for retaining the same upon the pin.

Further objects of my invention are to provide an ornamental pin point protector that will prevent a pin from being lost or becoming accidentally displaced relatively to a hat, and to provide a protector of the above type that is SiiIlPlO, durable, inexpensive to manufacture and highly elticient for the purposes for which it is intended.

I attain the above objects by a mechanical construction that will be hereinafter specificall y described and then claimed, and reference will. now be had to the drawing, wherein like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts tln'oughout the several views, in which Figure 1. is a side elevation of a pin in ac can-dance with this invention, 2 is an enlarged vertical sectional view of the protector, Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a portion of the n' tector, and Fig. 41 is a horizontal Fig. 9.

The reference numeral 1 denotes a pin having an ornamental head 2 at one end thereof and the opposite end pointed, as at 1 denotes a cylindrical shell having the outer end thereof provided with an or'nan'lental head 5, said head having a central axial. opening (3. The opposite end 01'' the shell 4.- has an annular inwardly projecting flange 7, and at a point intermediate the ends of said shell, the walls of the shell are indented to form an annular seat 8 in said. shell. I

9 denotes a cylindrical head having a pin 10 extending axially through the opening (3, and sin-rounding said pin between the heads 5 and t) is a coiled retractile spring 11 having one end thereof secured in the head 5, as at 12 and the opposite end secured in the head 1), as at 13.

141: denotes a sectional tapering gripping member, the sections ()1 said member having one end 15 thereof mounted in a socket 16 provided therefor in the head. 1), the ends 15 being retained within the socket to by a transverse rivet 17 or other Fastening means, the spring 11 and member 1-tbeing positioned on opposite sides of the head 9. The free ends of the sections oi the member 'l.-l; are slitted or slotted, as at 18 and bent inwardly to term gripping arms adapted to frictionally engage the pin 1 and retain the pointed end of said pin in the sectional member 141:.

The tension 01. the spring I 1. is sutlieient to retain the head 5) inan inner position and the sections of the member H in engagement with the seat 8 and .in engagement with the llange 7, thereby pressing the arms- 18 into engagement with the pin 1 to retain the pin in the member 1-]. To release the pin 1, the pin 10 is pushed inwardly to move the head 5) inwardly to permit the sections of the nunnber l t to separate slitticiently to release said pin.

From the foregoing it will be observed that my device constitutes a guard :tor the pointed end oi the pin as well as a lock, and I reserve the right to ornament the guard whereby it will harmonize with the head of the pin.

hat I claim is:-

1. A hatpin point protector comprising a shell, a head movably mounted in said shell, a push pin carried by said head and. normally protruding through the outer end ol. said shell, a sectional tapering gripping member connected to said head and having its opposite end slittcd to provide lingers projecting l'rom the shell and adapted to trictionally engage a hatpin, moans surrounding the push pin and connected to said head for normally maintaining said sectional member in engagement with the hatpin, and said shell provided with means for engaging the gripping member along the length of its taper.

2. In a hatpin point: protector, a shell, a head carried by the outer end o'l. said shell and having a central axial opening iliormcd therein, said shell having its wall indented lit) to provide an interior annular seat, a head movably mounted in said shell, a push pin carried by said head and projecting through said axial opening, a retractile spring sur rounding said pin and having its ends connected respectively to said heads, and a sec tional tapering member having one end connected to the movable head and having its free end slitted to form fingers adapted to engage a hatpin, said seat tending to retain the fingers and hatpin in holding engagement.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE G. HAY.

lVitnesses:

MAX H. SROLOVITZ, CHRISTINA T. H001).

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